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#39: Getting to the heart of it
Managing to be compassionate, even with difficult people.
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#38: “Between stimulus and response there is space.” or… People can’t make you feel any particular way.
Figuring out how to exert some measure of control over your world.
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#37: Question Authority
Question authority… yes, even ours.
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#36: Strumming my pain with his fingers
“Daddy!” Your wailing starts from the kitchen and becomes doppler blue-shifted as I hear you make your way toward my office. I’m not that alarmed because I can from experience tell how concerned I should be based on the tone of your cry. This was a “I’m-not-really-hurt-but-I-want-attention” cry, with harmonic undertones of “my-sisters-are-ignoring-me-so-I’m-coming-to-you”. You come…
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#35: The Persistence of Columbus Day (i.e. Admitting when you’re wrong)
Why Columbus Day can be a reminder to be gentler to ourselves…
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#34: Talking to yourself
#34: Talk to yourself – your future self.
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#33: On Suicide
It’s Suicide Prevention Week. How can we prevent it if we’re reluctant to even talk about it?
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#32: On Being Fragile
What do you do when you feel “Fragile”? Or is that even the right word for it?
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#31: You can please all of the people some of the time…
What do you do when your instinct to give to others runs into your instinct to care of yourself?
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Appreciating a moment
Setting aside my distracted globe to enjoy the joy of serendipity.